210610 Annular Eclipse over Letchworth (Explored 210908)

            I got very lucky with this image!  I had planned out the morning to catch the eclipse, but I had my dates wrong and only realized my error the evening before as I was settling down for the night, so I didn't get to bed as early as I would have liked to rest up for my morning outing.  And, I didn't have my spot fully picked out to catch this once in a lifetime celestial event.  Because of this, I set the alarm a bit earlier than I might have otherwise done, which was a good thing (as you'll see as I work my way through this rambling narrative...).  An hour and 20min drive to my viewpoint only to find it socked in by the clouds you can see past the ridgeline in this shot and I had a panicky race to my backup viewpoint (which would have been a 20min drive under normal circumstances - I won't say how long it took me to get there that morning...).  

I have yet to develop the full skillset when it comes to landscape photography.  I couldn't sort out the right settings for shooting into the sun, so I bracketed every composition in hopes that I could exposure blend something together into a solid image.  I haven't shared my image from that morning before now because I tried processing my files 3 times before today, but I couldn't get a "final" image that felt both real and looked like how I remembered the morning.  Until now.

This may not be perfection in photography, but it captures how I remembered the scene.  I shot it a bit wider than images I've seen from other photographers , but I wanted to capture the ethereal mists of the morning as well as the crescent sun.  Those same clouds almost blocked the view of the event entirely, but I managed to find a window of opportunity with is image.

I apologize for the rambling description with this image!

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Taken in: United States / New York / Castile / Castile (show map)

Taken on: June 10, 2021

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Camera: Olympus E-M1MarkII, f/3.5, 1/13 sec, 36mm, ISO 200 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Olympus E-M1MarkII
Lens:	Olympus M.Zuiko Digital ED 12-40mm f/2.8 Pro
Aperture:	f/3.5
Exposure Time:	0.077 sec (1/13)
Focal Length:	36mm
ISO:	200
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Metering Mode:	Center-weighted average
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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